Fwd: [linuxiran]LinuxJournal * March 2003 issue... some highlights

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Subject: [linuxiran]LinuxJournal * March 2003 issue... some highlights
Date: Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:45
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <address@hidden>
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* COVER: Blogs and Lists
        * Math vs. Spam: beyond Bayesian filtering
        * Power filtering with Spambayes
        * Unicode for the Web
        * New Mathematics 4.1 (2100 functions for math, sc and engg)
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Short pieces:
diff -u: What's new in kernel development?
www.0x49.org (keep notes for yourself)
www.n-view.de/index_en.html (N-View)
members.tripod.com/rose_swe/cfg/cfg.html (cfg2html)
toppler.sourceforge.net great game for yoru preteens

        LJ Index: FACTS FOR YOU
        Dozens of countries with laws encouraging free software: 2
        Number of free s/w laws or policies pending in those countries: 70

        No of govt desktops converted to GNU/Linux in Spain's
        Extremadura region by Nov 2002: 10,000
        No expected to be converted by Nov 2003: 100,000
        Download of Extremadura's own Linux distro, Linex,
        from outside the district: 55,000

        Number of different [GNU]Linux-based PDAs: 23


o UNICODE is necessary for international web development, but
  poses a few problems, writesReuven M Lerner (address@hidden>

o UNSING THE input subsystem, Part II. No matter how many buttons
  an input device has or how many kinds of events it can
  generate, you can now work with it from userspace.

o CHATTING UP the chef: introducing two chat servers, geektalkd
  and Shadowlands Forum, and a fine Jabber instant-messaging
  client, by Marcel Gagne.

o rsync, PART I: rsync makes efficient use of the network by
  only transferring the parts of files that are different
  from one host to the next. Here's how to use it securely.

o LINUX SIGNALS for the application programmer: Signals are a
  fundamental method for interprocess communication and
  are used in everything from network servers to media
  players. Here's how you can use them in your applications,
  explains Dr B Thangaraju (who has a PhD in Physics and
  worked as research associate in the IISc. He is presently
  manager at Talent Transformation, Wipro Technologies, India.
  His current area of research, study and knowledge
  dissemination are Linux kernel, device drivers and real-time
  Linux.)

o ORIGINAL and ultimate communities: Will the Web ever
  support on-line communities like the best of what
  we had in the old days, asks Doc Searls.

o AN INTRODUCTION to the Spambayes Project. A trainable
  system that works with your current e-mail system to
  catch and filter junk mail. Download the software
  from sf.net/projects/spambayes

o A STATISTICAL APPROACH to the spam problem. Using
  Bayesian statistics to detect an e-mail's spamminess,
  by Gary Robinson.

o BUILDING WITH BLOGS: The category is hot and huge but
  still new. Here's a look at your choices. By Doc
  Searls and David Sifry.

o eVote ADDS ELECTIONS to mailing lists.

o E-MAIL EVERYWHERE from anywhere. Whether you
  want to connect your home system to the Web while
  you're at work or need to view e-mail attachments
  on a remote system, the LJ website
  (www.linuxjournal.com) has an article about it,
  says Heather Mead.

o LINUX BUYERS GUIDE (www.linuxjournal.com/bg) will
  allow users to search through thousands of
  GNU/Linux-related listings and companies, on one site.

        Letters to the editor:
        - Two FTP proxies?
        - Is ptrace secure?
        - Another OpenLDAP Win and fix
        - Where's zNav?
        - Installfest at 11,000 feet (Bolivia)
        - Zaurus articles monthly please
        - tkcGallery vs. MooView
        - Thumbs-up on Bluecurve
        - Why Java without the VM?
        - Go on, take the Microsoft ad
        - Thanks for not taking the Microsoft ad

TECH SUPPORT
- SSH won't let me in
- Modem lights won't let me log off
- Dual-boot hangs on install
- SMP system won't power off
- PowerPC Motherboard?
- Management without Monitor and Keyboard
- Which GUI toolkit?

        NEW PRODUCTS
        - Powerwall 3 (security monitoring for small businesses)
        - CrossOver Office Server Edition (Operate MSWin in distributed
          thin-client environment for both GNU/Linux + Solaris, without
          the presence of a Microsoft OS and accompanying licences)
        - PureMessage 3.0 (formerly PerlMx), anti-spam
        - Xilinx Virtex-II Pro ML300 Evaluation Platform (allows
          designers to experiment with the Virtex-II Pro, which
          contains an embedded PowerPC processor.)
        - IBM eServer p630, the co's first pSeries system to
          run GNU/Linux natively
        - Fonix DECtalk RT (text-to-speech technology, format
          based synthesiser... offers personalised voices)

GETTING STARTED with Emacs...

        MATHEMATICA 4.2 It's like the Swiss Army Knife of
        technical computing. It is used in engineering, physics,
        computer science, publishing, finance/economics,
        mathematics, social sciences and life sciences.

        Broadcast flag: MPAA's latest attack on [GNU]Linux.

NEXT MONTH: When Red Hat 8.0 hit the streets, was your reaction 'Hey, what
did they do to KDE and GNOME?' or 'Hey, this looks GOOD'? Marco Floretti
will look at the standards you can use to make applications from any
combination of toolkits work together seamlessly.

        AFTER 15 years at a big corporation, Gary Maxwell started his
        own writing company. We all know about the office and mail
        apps for [GNU]Linux, but can Gary run a small business
        completely with [GNU]Linux and open-source software, including
        their accounting system? We'll find out when he tells us
        about his experiences with OpenOffice.org, Evolution and GnuCash.
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